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Rather than wait two months for the delivery of a machine which would burr holes on the inside of a shell booster, the engineering department of a Midwestern plant built its own machine in thirty hours. A novel feature of the homemade machine is the use of a dental burr, which in peacetime is used to make dental patients squirm

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Rather than wait two months for the delivery of a machine which would burr holes on the inside of a shell booster, the engineering department of a Midwestern plant built its own machine in thirty hours. A novel feature of the homemade machine is the use of a dental burr, which in peacetime is used to make dental patients squirm

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01/01/1942

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United States. Office for Emergency Management.

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Location

Concord (Saint Louis County, Mo.), 38.52444, -90.35722

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Library of Congress

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